DLife 1 - The Life of Religion Is Doing Good

Every Religion Is a Way of Life,
and Its Life Is the Doing of Good

DLife - 1

Everyone with any religion knows and acknowledges
that someone who lives right is saved,
and that someone who does not live right is damned.
For he knows and acknowledges
that someone who lives right, thinks right,
not only about God,
but also about the neighbor;
but not so someone who does not live right.

A person’s life is his love,
and what a person loves he not only freely does,
but also freely thinks.
We say therefore that his life is the doing of good,
because doing right accompanies his thinking right.
If these two do not go together,
they do not constitute a person’s life.

(Rogers translation)
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All Religion is of the Life,
and the Life of Religion
Is to Do that Which Is Good.

Every man who has religion knows and acknowledges
that he who leads a good life is saved,
and that he who leads an evil life is damned;
for he knows and acknowledges
that the man who lives aright thinks aright,
not only about God but also about his neighbor;
but not so the man whose life is evil.
The life of man is his love,
and that which he loves he not only likes to be doing,
but also likes to be thinking.
The reason therefore why we say
that the life is to do that which is good
is that doing what is good
acts as a one with thinking what is good,
for if in a man these two things do not act as a one,
they are not of his life.

(Potts translation)
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DLife - The Doctrine of Life for the New Jerusalem